Most Americans think of Betsy Ross as she was depicted in Charles Weisberger's popular painting The Birth of Our Nation's Flag--a motherly figure, sewing at the hearth. In fact, as Jo Ann Menezes's analysis in Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism points out, Ross was a widowed businesswoman who ran an upholstery shop out of her house. In Weisberger's painting, all signs of economic industry are erased and Ross's house is transformed into a home rather that the site of cottage industry. Ross is constructed as the perfect heroic mother, worthy of sacred creation; thus, our flag was born.
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Most Americans think of Betsy Ross as she was depicted in Charles Weisberger's popular painting The Birth of Our Nation's Flag--a motherly figure, ...
Megan Saint is anything but a saint. She smokes when she can get them. Beer had taken some time getting used to. She doesn't do drugs. To make up for that, she overuses the "f" word. A boyfriend would be nice but not many guys want to be seen with her. All told, Megan is a closet rebel. She loves getting in a "little" trouble-the kind of trouble that makes adults think she has "issues." But then real trouble comes to campus. Megan's just starting her junior year when weird things start to happen. Kids in her English class are dying. Surviving murder, mayhem, and kidnapping are the assignments...
Megan Saint is anything but a saint. She smokes when she can get them. Beer had taken some time getting used to. She doesn't do drugs. To make up for ...
Jade Hill and Associates are back on the case. Mary Katherine, an eighth grader and most popular girl in the school, who would never ever be seen within twelve yards of a seventh grader (if she hadn't lost Buck Dieter's class ring), hires Jade. Jade is the only seventh grader in Bonaparte with her own detective agency. Then someone puts a spell on Mary Katherine so she's withering away at an alarming rate, and ironically, Samantha, the granddaughter of a notorious Voodoo practitioner, is expanding exponentially and just about to explode. It looks like black magic. It is, after all, beyond the...
Jade Hill and Associates are back on the case. Mary Katherine, an eighth grader and most popular girl in the school, who would never ever be seen with...
Zip, the beautiful fat girl, is back. A freshman in ACCUSED OF MURDER and now a senior, she finds herself pursued by Cain Constable, a hunk who just happens to sideline as a model, and the object of death-texts by Breanne Fredrick, the most popular girl in the school, but to her fury second to Zip in class standing. In her freshman year Zip promised her virginity to Joshua Swift but now Josh is in New York and Zip is in San Francisco and Cain is hot on her trail. Joshua or Cain: how can she choose? Zip does have one additional problem: Cain has a brother just out of prison who has narrowed...
Zip, the beautiful fat girl, is back. A freshman in ACCUSED OF MURDER and now a senior, she finds herself pursued by Cain Constable, a hunk who just h...
Jade Hill already has a reputation as a crackerjack detective when Evan hires her to find his iPod. With classmates, Drew and Everett, she runs Jade Hill and Associates, a seventh-grade detective agency in Bonaparte, Mississippi. She lives in the old Lipton mansion with her dad and the ghost of Captain Lipton. Jade is pretty near fearless. There's only one thing that truly gives her the creeps-snakes Strange things are going on in Bonaparte. Blare Stokes has been charged with the murder of his wife. Sister John is acting weird. A mysterious man with a very small head is watching Jade's...
Jade Hill already has a reputation as a crackerjack detective when Evan hires her to find his iPod. With classmates, Drew and Everett, she runs Jade H...
In BLOOD SUCKERS, the characters from the first four books of the HIGH SCHOOL MURDER series are united at USC to solve the mystery of who is sucking the blood out of pets and campus coeds. Hamish Garza moves into the Zoo and finds himself the newest inmate of a house of kids with bloody pasts. Hamish is the "normal guy" -never killed anyone, nor has anyone tried to kill him, but all that changes. He finds out that living at the Zoo can be hazardous to one's health. There is a film to make and everyone pitches in. The Zoo takes to the hills outside Los Angeles to shoot raw footage until the...
In BLOOD SUCKERS, the characters from the first four books of the HIGH SCHOOL MURDER series are united at USC to solve the mystery of who is sucking t...
Joshua Swift is small and fast and almost never runs from a fight. Son to a legless man, grandson to a billionaire, best friends with the high school hunk and a beautiful fat girl, Zipporah Bennett never without a rolling suitcase full of food. Josh is accused of murdering Kerri Donner, the girl with the best breasts in the freshman class. And just to keep things interesting, he owes a debt to a murdered Indian woman and finds himself wearing a dead kid's clothes. Then there's the lurking FBI, the psychopath policeman and the townies who just want to kill him for sport. Not to mention the...
Joshua Swift is small and fast and almost never runs from a fight. Son to a legless man, grandson to a billionaire, best friends with the high school ...
Peter Winkle just lost his dad to the war in Afghanistan. He's having trouble getting his brain wrapped around the loss. Then a crop circle gives Peter an opening into an alternate universe. In his universe, he is a skinny sixth-grader who fights for the underdog against bullies who are sometimes tricked into eating worm brownies. His best buddy is Fanny Braid and neither of them minds taking a little abuse in the cause of truth and justice. In the alternate universe, he is Peter Winkle Son of Super Man. He has super powers and uses them to battle Moleman, Lizard Boy and the twin amoebas. The...
Peter Winkle just lost his dad to the war in Afghanistan. He's having trouble getting his brain wrapped around the loss. Then a crop circle gives Pete...
Max Beetle is 12, short and has never won a fight. There is every possibility he won't survive long enough to reach eighth grade. He is the most unlikely of heroes. He lives with his mom and dad and his baby sister Charlie. He is a decent gamer and loves anything that has to do with aliens, outer space, giant spiders, robo crabs and landscape devouring rhinos from Nonedar. His best friend is Frankie Bone, the grandest girl that ever sucked air and an all-conference soccer star. With only two more weeks left to the end of school suddenly things get weird. A stranger has appeared in the...
Max Beetle is 12, short and has never won a fight. There is every possibility he won't survive long enough to reach eighth grade. He is the most unlik...
Lancelot Weed's teachers look like giant bugs. There are enemy soldiers behind every rock and in every secret hiding place. Surviving involves being brave enough to navigate the complicated labyrinths of the small town and the hundreds of square miles of forest and lakes beyond. For Lancelot Weed, home with a new step-dad is also enemy territory. Dead Man's Hill with Jenny Bolt is paradise. A record snow has made the Christmas war games the stuff of legend. Lancelot can taste victory on the cold crystal air. But then they discover the woman under the ice. Jenny convinces Lancelot that they...
Lancelot Weed's teachers look like giant bugs. There are enemy soldiers behind every rock and in every secret hiding place. Surviving involves being b...
